Are you a collector, an enthusiast, DIYer or a novice? If you?re a collector, you surely don't want to read this review since there is going to be nothing for you to brag about. Collectors are the PC users who feel that if they have the best money can buy, others will be impressed and think they are knowledgeable. Enthusiasts and DIYers will gather knowledge, absorb the comparisons and base their decision on price and performance. For those of you who are novices, your benefit will be the knowledge that you will gather.

Let's put this into perspective; how quickly does stored data from your memory get transferred and sent to your display? Seconds, minutes, hours? None of the above, its nano or milliseconds, which is faster than you can blink your eye. We measure an SSD's performance by its read/write speeds, IOPS and access time. In a perfect world, all SSDs would perform as advertised, unfortunately nothing is perfect. Even the best of the best will underperform based on system configuration or driver issues. As a matter of fact, unless you are running statistical benchmarks or testing IOPS for a server configuration, you won't be able to tell the difference between an SSD with R/W speeds of 600/600 with 70,000 IOPS from one that is 350/350 with 50,000 IOPS. An enthusiast or DIYer possesses this knowledge and 8 out of 10 times will choose an SSD that has higher capacities at a lower cost over increased read or write speeds. (Of course within reason) Angelbird, a manufacturer from Austria, is entering the game with a line of SSDs that may just fit this market.